Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology areas: Networking & Security • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
4 pending office actions • 4 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 10 patents granted in the last 365 days
Nuro Inc. has 4 pending office actions in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area. These matters are distributed across 4 distinct examiners and 4 distinct art units. The fact that the number of pending actions matches the number of distinct examiners indicates a diversified prosecution strategy where each matter is being handled by a different person.
The busiest examiner, RECEK, JASON D, is responsible for 1 pending office action. This figure shows that the workload is spread across the examiners. For the company, this means that prosecution outcomes are independent of one another, as each matter is being evaluated by a different individual. This lack of concentration reduces the impact of any single examiner's tendencies.
The presence of 4 distinct art units suggests that the company's technology is broad enough to trigger reviews from multiple specialized patent office divisions. Managing the pending office actions across this many art units requires a versatile approach to prosecution. The busiest examiner pending count of 1 further emphasizes the distributed nature of the current portfolio.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 3 (75%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (25%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| RECEK, JASON D | 1 | 70.9% | +22.4% |
| TROOST, AARON L | 1 | 74.7% | +10.5% |
| MIRZA, ADNAN M | 1 | 84.6% | +9.6% |
| VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 1 | 9.5% | +7.1% |
Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18476807 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND RESOLVING CONTEXT MAP INCONSISTENCIES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | MIRZA, ADNAN M | — |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17462576 | BEAM STEERING IN FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE (FMCW) LIDAR SYSTEMS | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 237d overdue |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18778530 | UNIFIED DATA TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT LAYER FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | RECEK, JASON D | — |
| 18631694 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO AN AUTONOMY SYSTEM USING A TELEOPERATIONS SYSTEM | TROOST, AARON L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 2445 | 1 |
| 3666 | 1 |
| 3667 | 1 |
| 3645 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18778530 | UNIFIED DATA TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT LAYER FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE | RECEK, JASON D | 2445 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 19, 2024 |
| 18631694 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE TO AN AUTONOMY SYSTEM USING A TELEOPERATIONS SYSTEM | TROOST, AARON L | 3666 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 10, 2024 |
| 18476807 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING AND RESOLVING CONTEXT MAP INCONSISTENCIES FOR AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES | MIRZA, ADNAN M | 3667 | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Sep 28, 2023 |
| 17462576 | BEAM STEERING IN FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE (FMCW) LIDAR SYSTEMS | VASQUEZ JR, ROBERT WILLIAM | 3645 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | 237d overdue | Pending | Aug 31, 2021 |
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